
You can perform the administrative tasks using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) tools via AWS License Manager APIs.

By selecting Subscribe users, you can add authorized users to the license of Visual Studio Professional software. When you select Visual Studio Professional, you can see product details and subscribed users. Also, you are required to purchase Remote Desktop Services SAL licenses in the same way as Visual Studio by authorizing users for those licenses. Each product has a descriptive name, a count of the subscribed users to utilize the product, and whether the subscription has been activated for use with a directory. You can see listed products to support user-based subscriptions. To display a list of available Visual Studio software licenses, select User-based subscriptions in the AWS Licence Manager console. To set up authorized users, see AWS Managed Microsoft AD documentation.ĪWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM across AWS and on-premises environments. Your administrator can authorize users centrally using AWS License Manager and AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD).Ĭonfigure Visual Studio License with AWS License ManagerĪs a prerequisite, your administrator needs to create an instance of AWS Managed Microsoft AD and allow AWS License Manager to onboard to it by accepting permission. You can simply launch EC2 instances using license-included AMIs, and multiple authorized users can connect to these EC2 instances by using Remote Desktop software. You can launch on-demand Windows instances including Visual Studio and Windows Server licenses without long-term licensing commitments.Īmazon EC2 provides a broad choice of instances, and customers not only have the flexibility of paying for what their end users use but can also provide the capacity and right hardware to their end users. Amazon EC2 provides preconfigured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Visual Studio Professional 2022.

You can now purchase fully compliant AWS-provided licenses of Visual Studio with a per-user subscription fee.

Today we are announcing the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances.
